Vehicle-curtain.



A. G. TEASON.

VEHICLE CURTAIN; APPLICATION FILED MAR-7,1917.

1369,38? Patented June 11. 1918.

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ADAM GREGG TEASON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

VEHICLE-CURTAIN.

releases.

Application filed March 7, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM G. TEASON, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Curtains, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention consists in means for fastening in place the mica,celluloid, glass, or other transparent or translucent strips, sheets,panes, sections, or parts inserted in vehicle curtains or the like topermit vision therethrough or the ingress of light and suchmodifications in the construction of the curtain itself as may benecessary or desirable for the use of the said fastening means.

This invention is applicable either to the old-style curtains, in which.a relatively large strip of transparent or translucent material occupiesapproximately the center and a large part of the area of the curtain orto the more modern foldable curtains comprising alternated horizontal orvertical sections or strips of such transparent or translucent materialand leather or canvas strips or sections, the object of the said moremodern construction being to allow the curtain to fold into less spacewithout breaking the mica or similar material than is possible where thehereinbefore-mentioned relatively large area near the center of thecurtain is occupied by a sheet of the same.

The merit of the present invention resides in the quickness, ease, andconsequent cheapness of fastening curtain window panes into place and inthe fact that, instead of its being necessary for the owner of thevehicle to take his curtain to some place where a skilled workman canremove a piece of broken mica or the like and secure a new piece inplace in the curtain by sewing, the owner of the vehicle can simply makea purchase of the transparent or translucent material and fasten ithimself in its proper place. In addition, some curtains are notremovable from. the vehicle without the ripping of sewing or removal oftacks or other retaining means. Such detachment of such curtains isobviated by this invention.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification and inwhich like numbers of reference denote like parts wherever they occur.

Figure 1 is an elevation taken from the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June M, 191%.

Serial No. 153,009.

outside of a curtain (partly broken away at the left-hand end) Fig. 2 isa sectional view in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of the transparent or translucent material,showing the perforations or eyelets therethrough; and

Fig. 4: is a sectional view, on a scale slightly enlarged in comparisonwith the other figures, showing a fastener in place holding the windowpane in place in relation to the curtain.

The transparent or translucent strip, sheet, pane, or the like 1 may beof any desired shape or size and may run horizontally or vertically,longitudinally or laterally, or in any other direction.

The transparent or translucent element 1 is clamped to the curtainmaterial 2 by a plurality of separate or individual fasteners 3.

These. fasteners may be any suitable kind of clamp that will atintervals along the periphery of theelement l fasten the same to theelement 2, and in the use of such clamps it may not be obligatory(although in the preferred form herein more particularly shown anddescribed it is more convenient) to provide the element 1 with aplurality of perforations or eyelets 4 in order that the shank 5 of thepreferred form of fastener may pass therethrough for springfrictionalengagement and detention by the clamp member 6 of fastener 3. In thisconstruction the clamp 6 will be on one side of the material 2 and theshank 5 borne by the base 7 will be not only on the other side of thematerial 2, but also on the other side of the element 1, so that whenpressed together both parts of the fastener 3 (consisting of the clampmember 6 and the shank member 5) will be in comparatively tightfrictional engagement with each other and will clamp between them a partof the elements 1 and 2 and, if desired, the trimming or fastening stripor strips 8 and 9, the said strip 8 being on the outside of the curtainand the said strip 9 upon its inside.

It will be understood that if the element 1 is made of any flexiblematerial that will readily bend between the opposing male and femalemembers of the fasteners 3, it will when such material is used bepossible to omit the perforations or eyelets 4.. Likeon the line 22wise, it is to be understood thattthe relative arrangement of the socketor clamp 6 and shank 5 may be altered, if desired, by inversion orotherwise. Nor is it intended that in the use of this invention theprecise form of fastener disclosed in the drawings shall be necessary,but other forms of ball-andsocket fasteners or other fasteners maybeused.

The trimming or edging strips 8 and 9 may in some cases be omitted, butare preferable not only for the sake of appearance, which is improved bytheir trimming effect, but also to strengthen the construction so as toprevent pulling out of the fastener through the material of elements 1and 2. They may be glued or cemented at their outer "edges to theadjacent material 2.

Since it is desirable to exclude rain from the inside of a vehiclecurtain, the element 1 will at its top preferably be on the inside ofthe curtain, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, but for the purpose ofdrainage it is likewise preferable that the same should at its bottom beon the out-sideof the curtain 2, as also shown in Fig. 2.

In order that the upper part of the element 1 may be upon the inside ofthe curtain and the lower part on the outside thereof, the curtain isslit at 10, andto prevent tearing of the material 2 opposite thesaidslits 1O reinforcements 11 are attached to the material 2 bystitchingor otherwise.

Having thus described this invention, I hereby reserve the benefit ofall changes in form, arrangement, order, or use of parts as it isevident that many minor changes may be made therein without departingfrom the spirit of this invention.

I claim:

1. A vehicle curtain having a window pane therein composed of non-opaquematerial, theu-pper part of the said pane being upon the inside of thecurtain and the lower part on the outside of the said curtain, therebeinga slit in the said curtain through which the said ,pane passes fromthe inside to the outside of the said curtain.

2. A vehicle curtain comprising a body portion, a vision portion orportions, and means for connectingthe said body portion to the saidvision portion or portions, the upper part of the latter being upontheinside of-the former, there being a slit in the said body portionthrough which the said vision portion or portions passes or pass to thefront of the {body portion, and reinforcements opposite the said slits.

3. A vehicle curtain comprising a body portion having a window panetherein composed of non-opaque material said pane being disposed withits upper edge lying inwardly of the body portion and overlapping thesame and with its lower edge disposed outwardly of the body portion andoverlapping the same.

4. A curtain ofthe type described, having asight-opening therein, a paneof transparent or di aphanous material positioned to cover saidsight-opening and having its marginal edges applied directly to saidcurtain, around the edges of said sight opening, the upper edges of saidpane lying inwardly of the :body of said curtain and overlapping thesame, and the lower edge of said pane disposed outwardly of saidcurtain-bodyportion and overlapping the same, and independent detachabletwo-part fastenings for binding the pane and curtain together.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aliiX my signature.

ADAM GREGG TEASON.

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